That whole Akin political theatre crapola has become beyond tedious to me.
Chris Hedges nails it again:
The War in the Shadows.
Truthdig OpEd
Published: Tuesday 21 August 2012
"...They were all the same. Gangsters.
All states and armed groups recruit and use members of this underclass...."
"...The multitudes of crimes these killers, torturers, kidnappers, propagandists, special operations units and spies have carried out in our name are well known to those outside our gates. There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. Okinawans. Guatemalans. Cubans. Congolese. Brazilians. Argentines. Indonesians. Iranians. Palestinians. Panamanians. Vietnamese. Cambodians. Filipinos. South Koreans. Taiwanese. Nicaraguans. Salvadorans. Afghans. Iraqis. Yemenis. Somalis. They can all tell us who we are, if we can listen. But we do not. We are as ignorant, gullible and naive as children..."
Hmmm. Yes, Mr. Hedges some of us were ignorant, gullible and naive. I am not any longer, but I do not feel that Americans who are behind clandestine operations reflect the wishes of the American people overall. I also wonder how many other nations (or their elites anyway) would engage in those activities given the wealth, power, and goodwill afforded the nation as a whole after WWII. After all, people are people, as Jared Diamond proves in "The Third Chimpanzee." Americans aren't the only humans to shit in their nest.
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